Overview
Insights
News
Education and Credentials
Recognition and Community
Overview
Margaret "Meg" St. John Meehan focuses her practice on providing estate planning services to high net worth individuals and their families. Her focal point is on minimizing gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, as well as adapting existing trusts to improve their income and estate tax efficiency and utility, structuring gifts, and implementing sophisticated tax planning strategies.
In addition to this, Meg provides counsel to principals in the private equity and hedge fund sectors, advising them on optimizing planning opportunities associated with carried interests. Furthermore, she advises family offices and their principals on a wide range of matters, including tax optimization, governance, structuring, and comprehensive planning solutions.
Meg also oversees all phases of estate administration, including probate, preparation of estate tax returns, and estate tax audits. Her practice extends to advising donors on planned giving and providing guidance to private foundations and public charities on formation, qualification, and governance matters.
Insights
Presenter, July 15, 2024, The Westin New York At Times Square, New York, NY
Speaker, October 13, 2023, Online seminar hosted by National Business Institute
Speaker, December 15, 2022, Salisbury Bank Wealth Advisory
Presenter, July 11, 2022, Introduction to Trusts and Estates Conference, hosted by NYU School of Professional Studies
Co-author, May 18, 2020, Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal
News
Featured, February 1, 2022, Day Pitney Announcement
Mentioned, January 13, 2022, Boston Bar Association Law Firm Newsletter
Featured, January 10, 2022, Connecticut Law Tribune
Featured, January 4, 2022, Day Pitney Press Release
Education and Credentials
Education
Quinnipiac University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2011, Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal, Editor-in-Chief
Marist College, B.A., magna cum laude, 2006
Admissions
State of Connecticut
State of New York
Affiliations
Connecticut Bar Association, Estate and Probate Section, Executive Committee
Fairfield County Bar Association
New Haven Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section
Waterbury Bar Association
Recognition and Community
Recognition
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Selected to the list of Connecticut Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Thomson Reuters), Estate & Probate, 2019-2024
Quinnipiac University School of Law Academic Excellence Award, 2011
Quinnipiac University School of Law Outstanding Legal Scholarship Award, 2011
Quinnipiac University School of Law Service to the Law School Award, 2011
Community
Fairfield County's Community Foundation, Rising Professional Advisors Council